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...surprise that the police feel a common bond with the terrorists in white sheets. On March 4, a small army of state police and security guards rampaged through Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project and shot a young mother of four at point-blank range who was protesting against police brutality. Both the Klan and the police engage in beating and killing poor blacks and other minorities, and when the Chicago police saw the Klan hit the pavement, they retaliated...
...tutor younger students. Her favorite subjects at school were math and English. And she would frequently go up and down the stairs to visit her grandmother, Zater Bolhar, who lived just a few floors away in the same apartment building. But Girl X's neighborhood is the partially vacant Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago's near North Side, and the child's current anonymity is an apt symbol for the forgotten lives--and forgotten crimes--in this desolate inner-city area...
...story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote reporter Lee Bey in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 25. "Then it would have been news. Some legislator would have pushed for tougher laws against the brutalizers of children." While Cabrini-Green is slated for demolition, thousands...
Hell with that. Gonna be a Little League in Cabrini. A tough, prickly black community worker named Al Carter gets it started, in tense alliance with an enthusiastic but overly religious white insurance man named Bob Muzikowski. The very white downtown corporations are persuaded to do the right thing, and since team names are to be those of African tribes, by mad and wondrous logic there are the Northwestern Mutual Life Pygmies, the Northern Trust Maasai, the Morgan Stanley & Co. Mau Maus and the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus...
...attention on the kids, not the coaches. He tells his story without moralizing or cynicism, and doesn't pretend that a summer of baseball solved anything. In the end, after a team party at a coach's apartment, the kids get into cars for the drive back to Cabrini, which is still a war zone. This is not the moment for uplifting oratory, and Coyle doesn't spout any. But he does offer a gentle visual image that could be taken for hope: as the cars pull away from the curb, "a dozen small hands could be seen sticking...